MONUMENT NO. 20948

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Possible site of a pele tower at North Middleton, recorded in a survey of 1415. The exact location of the tower is unknown and no trace of such a structure survives above ground.

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A list of 1415 mentions, (1) and a survey of c. 1715 refers to, remains of a tower at North Middleton [NZ 060851]. (1-2)

Nothing resembling a tower exists in the present village, and its site cannot be distinguished from other minor depopulation remains scattered around the perimeter. (3)

North Middleton has not existed at any time in the Wansbeck Valley. Dodds suggests the explanation for the reference to a tower there is that the original settlement was plain Middleton. Later, as buildings appeared on the hill to the North, they were grouped together and gained the title North Middleton to differentiate the two settlements, but as North Middleton grew to prominenece, the new `North' prefix was dropped and the older settlement gained the prefix `South', which remains. This suggests that Middleton Hall occupies the site of the tower, although ther is nothing there to indicate a pele. (4)

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( 1) Archaeologia Aeliana : or miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity

C J Bates 14, 1891 Page(s)16

( 2) Archaeologia Aeliana : or miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity

J.Hodgson 13, 1916 Page(s)8

( 3) Field Investigators Comments

F1 DS 08-OCT-68

(4) Dodds, JF 1999 Bastions and Belligerents: Medieval Strongholds in Northumberland

Page(s)237-8

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